Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c55b9a9c5fc1280e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.3 KB Created: 2021-04-10 04:24:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-11-22
MD5: a53b30b3ba404d3bcff215916fbe1f83 SHA-1: 297188df07530e64e3b4375be2e092d2a1f22f0b SHA-256: c55b9a9c5fc1280e77c7a7490abeefb31948e7db5847c77599a5f8aef3862379
186 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF file contains numerous external links, many hosted on disposable domains, suggesting a link farm or phishing operation. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to astrological signs, which is likely a lure to entice users to click on the embedded malicious URLs. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9998

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Small PDF contains mass external PDF link farm critical PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links, mostly clustered on one host. This matches generated SEO/link-farm PDF carriers used to route users into malicious or unwanted-software delivery chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://bologen.ru/strik?utm_term=how+do+i+find+out+if+my+star+sign+has+changed PDF link annotation
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4383165/normal_5ffcd819dbab5.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4389352/normal_6066f5d18cc6d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4424011/normal_5fe3aeb5bb83c.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4474992/normal_604fb11b6b695.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4499995/normal_602caa475ce52.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://static.s123-cdn-static.com/uploads/4464315/normal_5fcbd127f36d6.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4404753/normal_6023a8cd0c5e0.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4377902/normal_5fe7af7019ea9.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4455673/normal_6064e7a84b614.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • http://jutoxuriwiloja.epizy.com/cavatina_guitar_tabs.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://77047a80-9f17-4504-a563-a097c25ca12e.filesusr.com/ugd/5c8b2f_18a9a4b8c1bf4c1f8b687a982a7be8f2.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • http://mirokuf.rf.gd/62010082777.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://segudufarus.epizy.com/23078588410.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xigilozixorod.epizy.com/command_prompt_for_java.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://87da31d5-d184-45e7-a456-0ad082c8bd65.filesusr.com/ugd/55e94a_205cbd33485b4075a9755ae3ef6ac010.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://d6236f05-450e-4b96-9875-1783d83c708b.filesusr.com/ugd/912de2_9cabe73ae0ca4ddcac02e08a056d11ce.pdf?index=trueIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/bidemewufa/a_death_in_the_family_batman.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/vudivuzakal/38145410676.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/jezekemunidup/android_studio_anim_xml.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/xuvamuba/tewesodupe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000fda4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFDA4 5440 bytes
SHA-256: e248a4719c273ae2dc0113eed2ac869c126465952d04d0015db1adf115b82548
font_01_sfnt_off00011004.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11004 11008 bytes
SHA-256: f700e8bbe6d2e6fc0836cc0bdcc80a13ce3a370d9af610b2fdb862488bdd9049
font_02_sfnt_off00013547.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13547 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 05d2457133b820fa77aa358e30e9acfbad3f04c46ced9a37296d9311117db176